The Hardy Heron has taken flight: it's the second LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world's most popular distro. New features include the Wubi Windows installer and Firefox 3 beta 5. Grab a copy here, and check out Linux Format's overview of the release.

Are you sure you're not a student? I'm pretty sure there are rules about school system employees not abusing punctuation like that....

Just installed 8.04. It has its' quirks, but overall the experience has been great. Installed without whining, booted to the desktop. My biggest complaint so far is that gnome-terminal randomly crashes when editing the profile. Well, that and that the package servers are overloaded.

You know what though? What I really want to do is set up a machine just for trying things. There must be at least a dozen distros I want to try, and half of those are high-quality desktops. Life is good.